".....all the good that a simple smile can do"

Living with Muscular Dystrophy

Sarabjit Parmar describes living with muscular dystrophy and how she can do anything she wants, except smileFrom the day I was born I have never smiled.As a child I don't think I ever questioned it.

It sounds bizarre, but I never acknowledged that it was a physical impossibility.
The first time the seriousness of it really hit me was when I was in my teens....

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